Walking Charles Xavier

Would you prefer Charles to be able to walk or not?

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ourchair said:
:lol:

You and your wife are cool. Can I sleep with you guys in your bed?
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Run Vic, run! He has diseases!
 
I don't really care if he walks or not. The only reason I would lean to him being in a chair (or at least be similarly weak with a cane or something) is that I think it fits Ultimate Xavier's sinister manipulative side. What better way to let people (read: the government) think that you are weak than to be crippled.
 
ultimatedjf said:
No, I prefer my exy to be a cripple, thanks. Row!
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I'm with this guy. All of a sudden he's powerful enough to walk again? I mean, sure, I think he could fix himself, but why now and not before? It would just show how inconsistantly comic books role. The next writer would probably find a reason to put him back in his wheelchair...
 
I put "I don't care" because him walking or not doesn't matter. It won't change, reveal, or develop his character. It's like giving him laser eyes. It completely doesn't matter.

Grant Morrison made it matter in New X-Men. It didn't until the end of his run, but when it did... hoo-boy. The reverse of Doom Patrol it was.
 
Bass said:
I put "I don't care" because him walking or not doesn't matter. It won't change, reveal, or develop his character. It's like giving him laser eyes. It completely doesn't matter.

Grant Morrison made it matter in New X-Men. It didn't until the end of his run, but when it did... hoo-boy. The reverse of Doom Patrol it was.
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I think laser eyes would be an intresting avenue of self-discovery, and would greatly help deepen professor xavier's character.
 
iceman said:
I think laser eyes would be an intresting avenue of self-discovery, and would greatly help deepen professor xavier's character.
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A laser *** even moreso.
 
Cyclops gave laser eyes a bad name.

Unless it blisters flesh and welds steel, I vote NO!
 
I think he has been able to walk all along, just not far and probably for a very short amount of time. So he's practicing so he be able to walk around the way every one else takes for granted. In 616 his telekenisis is not that powerful, but he can still throw people and paralyze them. I figure it's probably in the same vein as that in UU. So he can probably take a couple of steps, but that's not really walking anyway. Besides, If he's going to use telekinesis as a mode of travel, I'm sure flying (or at least levitating) would be the more efficient use anyway.
 
But the real question is: can Charles use his telekenetic abilities to get his weiner working?
 
UltimateE said:
I don't know what you're talking about. That must have come from some sucky alternate Earth dimension that only you as nexus of the universe are privvy to.
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He's a witch! Burn him! Burn him I say!
 
Bass said:
It's ****ing brilliant. Xorn appears in the fifth issue, and it pays off in the fifth issue at the end of the run. When it happened, I just stopped. And I had to go back and re-read the entire run. It blew me away.



It's ****ing terrible because all the things they're trying to do now Morrison already did extremely well. They brought him on to create a new X-Universe. He did that. Then they immediately undid it, then tried to do it again, but in a much worse way.

For example, Morrison starts his run by killing off the entire mutant nation of Genosha resulting in 16 million deaths (an astronomical percentage of the global mutant population) which the X-Men are unable to prevent. They attack those responsible, and seemingly dispose of them. It's these acts that spiral to form Morrison's entire run. This is the beginning of the story.

A couple of years later, Marvel decides to have a story which starts as the Avengers are besieged by all their old enemies, it then transpires that Scarlet Witch, for no reason, went crazy and become omnipotent and did all this. Then she creates an alternate world, and then decides, to eliminate all the non-marketable mutants and everyone is forced to watch and be unable to do anything, not that they had done anything prior to this. This is the entire story.

If you want to 'streamline' the mutants in the X-Universe and make them a minority again, there was your chance, solely within the X-Men title (where it has actual relevance as opposed to the Avengers) without relying on deus ex machina endings and overblown casts. Morrison did it, in his first issue, and it still resonated powerfully with meaning.

Morrison has Wolverine, who has started to remember parts of his earlier life, go off in a perilous search for his true identity and what the Weapon X programme was about. In a stunning flash of insight, Morrison explains Weapon X means "Weapon Ten" and we meet Weapon XIV (14), aka Fantomex. Fantomex leads Wolverine and Cyclops into the belly of the World Plus programme in which Wolverine finds out more about his origin and has to fight the insanely powerful Weapon XV (15). Wolverine not only uncovers some of his past, but also works out Xorn's true identity.

Marvel's new attempt - Wolverine finds out his origin at random, because they wanted to do a new Wolverine ongoing. Scarlet Witch eradicates "all" the mutants from the world and is so doing, gives Wolverine his memory back. For no reason. It just happens. There's no more satisfying an ending to an 8-issue "event" than, "It just happens".

Another example - Magneto, who died in Morrison's first issue during the attack on Genosha, returns and says, "I always come back. Haven't you noticed? I think it's my secondary mutation."

The "New" way - Magneto dies at the end of Morrison's run. Magneto comes back because the Magneto who died was actually an impersonator who was pretending to be his own twin brother pretending to be Magneto. Then, because this made no sense, Scarlet Witch, for no reason, apparently created the dead-pretending-pretender Magneto because she thought her father was dead. Magneto surviving his death in Morrison's first issue is now totally unexplained.

I want you to reread the above "New" way and realise the futile idiocy of the current quality since Morrison's departure. It's pathetic.
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And then they said 'let's make an "Ultimate Universe" so we can make things less confusing.'
 
Yeah, I would have preferred Morrison over Bendis any day. Bendis can't really hold a creative candle up to many people, actually, he's just a go to guy because he can shell out character-driven stories for nothing.
 
It was already time. He have the power to move things, why not move his legs? It's just like Jedis, why can't hey fly? They levitate everything, why can't they do it with themselves besides just jump really high
 
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